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Mere hours after an oil platform explosion ripped through the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday afternoon, a tanker carrying 2.4 million gallons of diesel fuel has reportedly run aground in the Northwest Passage, the Arctic waterway above the Canadian mainland.
According to the Canadian Broadcasting Centre, the tanker is owned by Woodward's Oil and got stuck on a sandbar near the Nunavut community of Gjoa Haven in northern Canada.
The ship was taking the diesel fuel to resupply the remote communities in the region, CBC reported. As yet, there is no word on whether the tanker is spilling any oil or on when it can be set free of the sandbar.
Either way, the accident comes just days after a Danish cruise ship, the Clipper Adventurer, hit a rock in the same region and all passengers were forced to evacuate. After that accident, an analyst warned the Toronto Sun that increased shipping throughout the Northwest Passage, of which only 10 percent has been charted, would lead to increased risk of environmental disasters.
Read more at the CBC.
Diesel Tanker Runs Aground in the Arctic
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